sheave
See also: sheaf
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Middle English, from a Germanic base akin to German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split”). For more see shive.
Noun edit
sheave (plural sheaves)
- A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or similar; the wheel of a pulley.
- 1942 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “The Stanhope & Tyne Railway: II–Self-Acting Inclines”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
- To an exceptional degree the duties on these inclines have been passed on from father to son; many a boy has begun his working life in oiling the sheaves and, after passing through every grade, has reached the age of retirement in the responsible position of brakesman.
- A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
Translations edit
wheel having a groove
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Etymology 2 edit
See sheaf.
Verb edit
sheave (third-person singular simple present sheaves, present participle sheaving, simple past and past participle sheaved)
- To gather and bind into a sheaf.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
- From him did forty million serfs (...) receive
- Rich freeborn lifelong land, whereon to sheave
- Their country's harvest.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 1-4
Translations edit
to bind into a bundle
See also edit
References edit
- “sheave”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.